Beautiful garden created in Cornish quarry
Their garden may be located in an area of predominately Cornish granite, but this hasn’t stopped the owners of Bolts Quarry Farm from transforming where originally there wasn’t a garden at all…
Their garden may be located in an area of predominately Cornish granite, but this hasn’t stopped the owners of Bolts Quarry Farm from transforming where originally there wasn’t a garden at all…
Due to the coronavirus lockdown, the Open Garden events for 2020 have been cancelled. In this online Open Gardens series, we will be speaking with the owners of the gardens we would have opened…
Eighteen years ago there was very little garden at Bolts Quarry Farm at St. Breward. Now the garden has evolved into one really worthy of public inspection.
Ash dieback is affecting trees at our Kennall Vale Nature Reserve, killing many ash trees and spreading rapidly. As a result, we will be closing the reserve on certain dates in November and…
Ash dieback is affecting trees at our Kennall Vale Nature Reserve, killing many ash trees and spreading rapidly. This poses a threat to both public safety and the scheduled ancient monument. As a…
An old quarry with important geological features.
A delightful old oak woodland with two streams and a quarry
If seen up close, the glittering Ruby-tailed wasp is, perhaps, one of the UK's most beautiful insects. A solitary wasp, it can be found in sandy and rocky habitats like quarries, outcrops and…
The common spotted-orchid is the easiest of all our orchids to see: sometimes, so many flowers appear together that they create a pale pink carpet in our woodlands, old quarries, dunes and marshes…
The little ringed plover first nested in the UK in 1938, but has since moved in happily! It has taken advantage of an increase in man-made flooded gravel pits, reservoirs and quarries that provide…
The pyramidal orchid lives up to its name - look for a bright pinky-purple, densely packed pyramid of flowers atop a green stem. It likes chalk grassland, sand dunes, roadside verges and quarries…
The wall brown or 'wall' gets its name from the fact it rests on any bare surface or wall! It can be found in open, sunny places like sand dunes, old quarries, grasslands and railway…